Airman continues grandfather?s Tuskegee legacy at Balad
An undated photo shows 1st Lt. Ramon F. Noches, a Tuskegee Airman assigned to the 477th Bomb Group Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky. Lieutenant Noches was killed in a B-25G aircraft accident June 6, 1945, during night-flying training at Gunter Army Air Field, Montgomery, Ala. He was a grandfather to Tech. Sgt. Rose Noches, a surgical service craftsman with the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo)